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February 15, 2024
Straight Testimony to the Laodiceans – Part 14
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE THRU THE YEARS (Fourth Part)
1900 - “Self-exaltation is a dangerous element. It TARNISHES everything it touches. It is the OFFSPRING of pride, and it works SO INGENIOUSLY that, unless guarded against, it will take possession of the THOUGHTS and control the ACTIONS. The Laodicean message must be proclaimed with POWER; for NOW MORE THAN EVER before, are seen PRIDE, WORLDLY AMBITION, HYPOCRISY, and DECEPTION.” - Ibid, RH Sept. 5, 1900/7 E. G. W BC 963.Like begets like and reproduces itself after its own kind. Thus Self-exaltation is an offspring of pride, and “pride goeth before a destruction; a haughty spirit before a fall. It “tarnishes,” corrodes, erodes everything it touches of our heart, mind, character, and personality—the so-called “spirit” of man. Indeed, now more than ever before, spiritual and carnal pride, worldly ambition, “the love of the world and things of the world, the lust of the eye and the flesh”, hypocrisy, dishonesty, deception, and “living a lie” are not only found in a doomed world hastening on to its destruction just like the antediluvian world, but as fearfully prophesied, in the churches and Christian mainstream. God’s supposed people are hardly that “chosen generation, royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people” for they have become so much like the world in their practices and lives. No wonder the straight testimony to the Laodiceans must be “proclaimed with power,” i. e., under the unction of the Holy Spirit.
Much earlier, in 1887, God’s humble messenger already warned the remnant church members:
“We have far more to fear FROM WITHIN THAN WITHOUT. The hindrances to strength are far greater FROM THE CHURCH ITSELF than from the world! . . . What is our condition in this fearful and solemn time? Alas, what PRIDE is prevailing in the church, what HYPOCRISY, what DECEPTION, what love of DRESS, FRIVOLITY, and AMUSEMENTS, what desire for SUPREMACY!” – Ibid, RH Mar. 22, 1887/ 1 SM 122, 125.
It is with a deepening sense of urgency that I am sharing with any who are still interested, what—by prayer, due diligence, patience, and painstaking research and studies through the years up to this very moment—truly opened my eyes, and mind to unalloyed, unvarnished, incisive truths that cut to the heart, convicted my conscience but also revealed “the way of escape,” “the divine standard that God will raise “when the enemy shall come in like a flood” that threatens to overwhelm and drown me! No, it is isn’t and never will be a “peace-and-safety,” “once-saved-always saved,” “once in grace-always in grace” message but “to the law and the testimony,” verily, “the straight testimony to the Laodiceans.”
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.